Over the last few weeks, perhaps a month, I have noticed Face Book morphing into something that is quite interesting… There are a number of quite distinct groups of people that seem to form the community, well my community anyway. This observation is based on the News Feed feature… The largest grouping of users (friends) [...]
On December 15th Nina Paley posted a video to You Tube called “Copyright Is Not Theft” with some video and lyrics and invited people to write music for it. Here it is: Within a day someone had provided a Gypsy Jazz soundtrack…. Here it is: By the 18th a growing number of remixes were being [...]
When I was fifteen, I slipped in a puddle of Nitric acid that had spilled onto the roadway in Wellington (New Zealand) from an insecure load. Of course when 90 proof Nitric Acid meets skin, usually the skin suffers second or third degree burns. It did and I was hospitalized for the [...]
I was slammed into reality the other day by the fact that a Solicitor that I have known for many years who dealt in the area of the law known as Trade marks which falls under the auspices of Intellectual Property Law, got some basic knowledge about the Australian Copyright Legislation wrong. (No 'P' it's [...]
Today we present a point of view that will offend many, please few, but will attempt balance the mainly conservative viewpoints and opinions that Perceptric strives for. “Conservative? Hah!” I can hear from the peanut gallery. “Conservative my arse! Koltai you’re nothing but a leftwing Bolshevist commie agitator.” Thank-you. You are right on [...]
The problem with the Internet is that it’s full of lies and misdirection. Some of those lies emanate from Media barons, some from Politicians. Hell, some even come from Bloggers. But when the misdirection is uttered by a music artist who is worshipped by the young and naive, then I feel that I have to [...]
Or – How to increase Record Sales…… A few years ago (1994), a well known Australian journalist told me the secret of Journalism. “Tom, if you want to get published, just have something contrary to say about someone famous or a hot political subject and every journo in the land will want to ‘quote [...]
We''ve enjoyed watching the growth of Farmville from nothing to the number one “Coolest Thing” on the internet.OK – it's subjective – you might not like it – but nearly 50 million users do. Thats 2.5 times the population of Australia, 1/8 the population of the USA. So it's gotta be worth a mention. The [...]
The 101 key keyboard Last year, Microsoft patented the up/down page keys on your 101 key keyboard. They didn’t actually patent the keys, because of course they don’t make the keyboards. They patented the functionality of Page up and Page down, This surprised me, because I remember in the years before Microsoft, using both [...]
Michael Jackson is the “the King” of the moonwalk. The reverse step dance move that was made famous by the Moonwalker video. June 2009 will be remembered by many as the month when Michael departed this cruel world for parts unknown. But, the Music Business was quick off the mark to capitalize on [...]